Special Characters

[zoobie]

I'm looking for code that makes a solid diamond for a menu separator...but when I use ♦ or ♦ in a table, all I get is a square. What's with all that? Thx

[Veneficus]

Originally posted by zoobie
I'm looking for code that makes a solid diamond for a menu separator...but when I use ♦ or ♦ in a table, all I get is a square. What's with all that? Thx

:confused: I just tested &#9830 and &diams. IE6, Mozilla 1.4, and the internal browser in Arachnophilia 4.0 all displayed the diamond properly for &#9834. On all three, &diams displayed exactly as written, "&diams". Character Map shows it as U+2666 if you can get unicode to display.

[zoobie]

♦ doesn't work in the code below, either...

<style>
table.menu {border:1px solid #00ffcc;font:bold 12px verdana;color:gold;margin:15px auto;}
</style>

<table align="center" class="menu">
<tr>
<td align="center"><a href="#wel"> WELCOME!</a> &diams; <a href="#feat">FEATURES</a> &diams; <a href="#facts">FUNNY FACTS</a> &diams; <a href="news.html">NEWS</a> &diams; <a href="#abt">ABOUT</a> &diams; <a href="tell.php">TELL-A-FRIEND </a></td>
</tr>
</table>

Actually, in the code above, it should be printing out because if I type &amp;hearts; on this board I get &hearts; ...so the &ampdiams; should be displaying, too...but all I get are those square boxes. :eek:

[Ben@WEBProp]

I'm no pro, but what font are you using in that code? Is that the correct coding to get that symbol in the verdana font? I know that you use diffent codes in different fonts to get different characters, right? So maybe you are just telling it to display a non-existent character...

Then again, maybe not. I really don't know the answer, but I think this is at least worth a shot...

-Benw

[Roy Sinclair]

The "Square box" is what usually shows when the character you've specified doesn't exist in the font face you're using. Make sure you've got the right font and the character should show.

[zoobie]

Well, this is a property of HTML 4.0 in the declared charset=iso-8859-1. Font is irrelevant although it can be styled.

Does anyone see diamonds here?
&diams;&diams;&diams;

All I see are squares...:rolleyes:

[ddubs]

wierd

[beetle]

My (Windows XP) Character Map shows no diamond character for Verdana. You sure it's there? Maybe Verdana has an "error" :eek:

[Roy Sinclair]

Originally posted by zoobie
Well, this is a property of HTML 4.0 in the declared charset=iso-8859-1. Font is irrelevant although it can be styled.

Does anyone see diamonds here?
&diams;&diams;&diams;

All I see are squares...:rolleyes:

Look what happens when you specify a font though:

Arial:
&diams;&diams;&diams;

Times:
&diams;&diams;&diams;

Courier:
&diams;&diams;&diams;

Century:
&diams;&diams;&diams;

[cg9com]

*applauds*

[MotherNatrsSon]

I see diamonds in all the post where it looks like they shoud be.......whether the font is specified or not..... I bet it is the font that you have set as your preference in your system fonts that is not allowing you to see it but everyone else?????

MNS

[zoobie]

Yep...It's triggered by only certain fonts...I guess verdana isn't one of 'em.
Sweet...Thanks :cool:

[MotherNatrsSon]

That is funny, because I use verdana as my font "preference" and I see the diamonds......

MNS

[Nightfire]

I only see diamonds in Roy's post, rest of the time I see those squares

[theabyss]

I see nothing but diamonds in Mozilla. Don't know about IE. I won't use that browser ever again :D

I have the View > Character Coding menu set to Unicode (UTF-8), so does that effect anything?

[justame]

/me just a whispers® to zoo...

just a check® this out...hehehe...

http://www.chank.com/freefont_detail.php?sku=1083

[me']

My results:+-----+---------------+------------+
| | zoobie's test | roy's test |
+-----+---------------+------------+
| ie6 | squares | diamonds |
| moz | diamonds | diamonds |
+-----+---------------+------------+